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AR, VR Markets Primed for Rapid Growth
After experiencing incremental gains over the past decade, the augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) markets are poised for swift advancement as the technologies mature and find new uses. Market research firms predict that from 2017 to 2023, the global compound annual growth rate will be about 40% for AR and nearly 34% for VR. This means a $60 billion market for AR in just four years — up from $4.2 billion in 2017.
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From Textiles to Meat: CO2 Lasers Leave Their Mark
Sealed CO2 laser sources are useful in many manufacturing applications — from cutting, drilling, and perforating to marking, engraving, scribing, and welding. They can process a diverse array of materials — including textiles, polymers, rubber, composites, glass, wood, ceramics, and metals — and are used in various industries worldwide.
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Ultraprecise 3D Microprinting for Optical and Photonic Components
Miniaturization is the trend of downsizing devices and products, which is triggering technological innovation. Miniaturization down to the microscale means functional components are becoming even smaller and lighter and increasing the performance of highly integrated systems. For example, miniaturized photonic chips, cameras, and sensor systems enable applications ranging from high-speed data- and telecommunications to ultracompact imaging systems in mobile devices and disposable medical instrumentation at the point of care. These applications require new manufacturing and packaging methods to bring more and more miniaturized and high-performance components together in increasingly small spaces. Here, additive manufacturing (AM) with submicrometer precision provides an interesting value proposition.
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EuroPhotonics - Summer 2019
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FREDMPC
Photon Engineering LLC
Unleash your engineering creativity and inquisitive mind with FREDMPC. Predict performance with higher confidence by tracing orders of magnitude, more rays, through your system. Experiment by varying more parameters to find the optimum hardware configuration. Ask more " What if...?"
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ECOC 2019: Optical Communication
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Join the world’s leading optical communication professionals in Dublin this September. ECOC 2019 is your opportunity to hear new ideas shaping your industry, make new contacts and gain insight into the latest, cutting-edge advances in the field. What’s on at ECOC 2019? — Over 400 technical papers,...
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Alluxa Ultra Series Filters and Coatings
Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.
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The Next Generation Comes to Light
Lumencor Inc.
Lumencor’s new Spectra III Light Engine.
- Breadth: Eight spectrally optimized sources for DAPI, CFP, GFP, YFP, Cy3, mCherry, Cy5, Cy7 excitation
- Power: ~500mW / output, ~4W total
- Control: Exceptional power and wavelength stability
- Stability: Exceptional reproducibility
- Ideal for quantitation
- Ease of use: Small, cool, pre-aligned, Mercury-Free
- Applications: Fluorescence microscopy among others, OEM customization upon request
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Machine Learning and Computer Vision Lead to Smarter, More Precise Crop Management
Researchers at the Earlham Institute (EI), working with G’s Growers in Ely, England, have developed a machine learning platform that works with computer vision and ultra-large-scale images taken from the air to help categorize lettuce crops in fields. To quantify millions of in-field lettuces acquired by fixed-wing light aircraft equipped with sensors, the researchers customized the platform, called AirSurf, by combining computer-vision algorithms and a deep-learning classifier trained with over 100,000 labeled lettuce signals. The tailored platform, AirSurf-Lettuce, demonstrated the capability to score and categorize iceberg lettuces with an accuracy of more than 98%.
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A group of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers has demonstrated that light can be used to optimize the production of osmotic power, or blue energy, at river estuaries. The researchers created a system that reproduced the conditions that occur at estuaries, where electrically charged salt ions move from the salty seawater to the fresh river water. They shined light on their system, which combined water, salt, and a membrane just three atoms thick, and found that the system produced twice as much power under the effect of light as it did in the dark.
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A consortium of scientists from five European institutions has developed a new class of molecular photoswitches that are operated with visible light only. The new switches show large separation of absorption bands and function in various solvents including water. The researchers believe that the new switches could lead to the development of improved photocontrolled systems for a variety of applications that require fast, responsive functions.
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Coming in the Next Issue...
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Features
Fiber Optic Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Testing, OLED Displays, Optics for Industrial Metrology
Photonics Media is currently seeking technical feature articles on a variety of topics for publication in our magazine EuroPhotonics. Please submit an informal 100-word abstract to Editor-in-Chief Michael Wheeler at [email protected], or use our online submission form www.photonics.com/submitfeature.aspx.
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